[Python-ideas] Ordered storage of keyword arguments (original) (raw)

Chris Rebert pyideas at rebertia.com
Thu Oct 28 10:38:09 CEST 2010

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:13 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

I don't see much use in having the order of providing the keyword arguments in a function call always available. Perhaps there's a way to have this optionally, i.e. by allowing odicts to be passed in as keyword argument dict ?!

Where I do see a real use is making the order of class attribute and method definition accessible in Python (without having to use meta-class hacks like e.g. Django's ORM does).

So, you want to make class bodies use (C-implemented) OrderedDicts by default, thus rendering metaclass prepare() definitions for that purpose ("meta-class hacks") superfluous?

Cheers, Chris

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